virtual templated functions?

[Tom Lien]

I am trying to do something like this:

class Item {

  template<class target_iter>
  virtual void use(target_iter begin, target_iter end) = 0;

};

g++ says that this is an invalid use of 'virtual' in template declaration.
Is this a language limitation? Is it just not implemented yet? If this
is an impossible feature is there a workaround or alternative that could
serve my needs as well?

Thanks

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